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And I don't know any more than what happened that night." "Tell us what happened that night," said Breton. "Well, that night I went round, as I often did, to play piquet with Cardlestone. That was about ten o'clock. About eleven Jane Baylis came to Cardlestone's she'd been to my rooms to find me wanted to see me particularly and she'd come on there, knowing where I should be.
Myerst, and eventually what I am now. And it was not until three years ago that I found Chamberlayne. I found him in this way: After I became secretary to the Safe Deposit Company, I took chambers in the Temple, above Cardlestone's. And I speedily found out who he was.
"What does he know of the murder of Marbury and of you in connection with it?" demanded Breton. "Come tell me the truth now." "He's been investigating so he says," answered Elphick. "He lives in that house in Middle Temple Lane, you know, in the top-floor rooms above Cardlestone's. And and he says he's the fullest evidence against Cardlestone and against me as an accessory after the fact."
I picked it up just now in Cardlestone's room, when you were looking into his bedroom." "But that, after all, proves nothing. Those mayn't be the identical stamps. And whether they are or not " "What are the probabilities?" interrupted Spargo sharply. "I believe that those are the stamps which Maitland your father! had on him, and I want to know how they came to be in Cardlestone's rooms.
They began to be afraid by that time Elphick had got to know all about Cardlestone's past as Chamberlayne. And as I tell you, Elphick's fond of Cardlestone. It's queer, but he is. He wants to shield him." "What did they say when you accused them?" asked Breton. "Let's keep to that point never mind their feelings for one another."
If the confusion in Elphick's rooms had been bad, that in Cardlestone's chambers was worse. Here again all the features of the previous scene were repeated drawers had been torn open, papers thrown about; the hearth was choked with light ashes; everything was at sixes and sevens.
And I found out that those stamps were in the hands of Cardlestone!" Myerst paused, to take a pull at his glass, and to look at the two amazed listeners with a smile of conscious triumph. "In the hands of Cardlestone," he repeated. "Now, what did I argue from that? Why, of course, that Maitland had been to Cardlestone's rooms that night.
Cardlestone would make her have a glass of wine and a biscuit; she sat down and we all talked. Then, about, I should think, a quarter to twelve, a knock came at Cardlestone's door his outer door was open, and of course anybody outside could see lights within.
"This flight of Elphick's and Cardlestone's." "I think, as I said, that they knew something which they think may be forced upon them. I never saw a man in a greater fright than that I saw Elphick in last night. And it's evident that Cardlestone shares in that fright, or they wouldn't have gone off in this way together." "Do you think they know anything of the actual murder?"
All the same, I do know that man he's Mr. Cardlestone, another barrister. He and Mr. Elphick are friends they're both enthusiastic philatelists stamp collectors, you know and I dare say Mr. Elphick was round there last night examining something new Cardlestone's got hold of. Why?" "I'd like to go round there and make some enquiries," replied Spargo. "If you'd be kind enough to "
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